Today's
New York Times features
the research of Paula Niedenthal, who received her Ph.D. at Michigan in 1987 and since the late 1990s has been
on the faculty at Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France. The focus of the
Times article is a new theory of smiling developed by Paula and her colleagues, which "[t]hey believe ... can account not only for the source of smiles, but how people perceive them."